Cooler didn’t arrive until after dinner. If I were twenty years younger I’d have stayed up all night. 😆
As I suspect a lot of people are doing, I’m going to keep using my existing graphics card until RTX 5000 series drops in January. Everything else is new, though. First build in seven years.
I randomly decided to upgrade from a 3700x to a 5700x just after the price dropped to $130 (😮)
Nice, painless, cheap upgrade…
Unfortunately…the bios upgrade needed for my Gigabyte x370 board just flat out doesn’t boot so i had to revert it…
So then i was like fuck it I’ll get a 5000x-ready x570 board…
But then it’s like hmmm…i can do DDR4-3600 on these boards… might as well get a couple Trident Z Neo sticks…
And hmm… this board does PCI 4.0 NVME… might as well splurge for a Samsung 980 Pro…
And now I’m wondering whether to get a new PSU so i can do a second PC with the spare parts… and scoping out GPU deals because I’m already in too deep at this point…
So now my office is starting to look like a budget version of this post 😅
One of the most exciting times owning a computer for me is where you are right now. When everything arrives, and it’s still in all the fancy packaging, and you’re mapping out the build in your mind. I can’t tell from the picture, which CPU did you get?
Edit: can you believe HDD these days? I’m still amazed every time I pull an NVMe HDD out of the packaging. Absolutely mind-blowing. My first computer had an spinning drive connected through molex and IDE cables.
My first computer didn’t have hard drive at all. 5.25" floppy drives.
My first PC with a hard drive used an ST-506 interface w/molex and data and control cables. 40MB. I couldn’t imagine ever filling the whole thing.
It’s all so much easier now.
Damn, I’m old.
Oh yeah, I meant the first computer I built myself from scratch. My actual first computer was a Commodore 64, and then an IBM clone 386, and eventually a powerhouse 486. It’s mind-blowing how far things have advanced, especially if you consider things like ChatGPT, which is essentially the Star Trek computer actualized in the real world.
I almost got pissed for about 5 seconds the first time I ordered a new SSD and thought they shipped me RAM. Mind completely blown. I was showing the thing to my friends for a couple of hours, just asking, “you know what a Hard Drive looks like? Check this out! That tiny thing is a freaking 2 TB SDD!”
My first computer was either the Mac 128k or the Apple ]|[
FYI: HDD is short for hard drive. So calling an SSD a hard drive doesn’t make a lot of sense since they are by definition different things.
Calling an SSD a hard drive makes sense but calling it a HDD doesn’t because HDD means hard disk drive and an SSD doesn’t have disks
Nah, just call an SSD an SSD (or solid-state drive if you got lots of time and like being overly verbose) or just storage device or similar synonym.
A hard disk drive is called that because it contains hard disks as opposed to earlier storage mediums which often had soft (or floppy) disks. Hard drive is just a shorter and easier way to say hard disk drive.
Hard doesn’t refer to the fact that the outer shell is hard, because of course it is.
So since SSDs don’t contain any disks, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to call them hard when they are in fact nonexistent.
It would be HD if it was hard drive.
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk[a] is an electro-mechanical data storage device
Why are you starting a new thread. Join the existing or something instead. This has been addressed.
Of course I know what HDD means. I work in IT. I just shorted it because it’s easier to understand, write, and say. I have already proved multiple times with multiple dictionaries that “Hard drive” is the same as “Hard disk drive”.
Either way it doesn’t matter, the point was that you shouldn’t call SSDs HDDs.
Gz and don’t forget to update your Samsung 990 asap. Cheers
I’m hoping Bazzite Topgrade will handle the firmware upgrade. This’ll be my first box I’ve built that Windows will never, ever go anywhere near.
Wise choice on waiting for the graphics card.
New ones are always better and we have been waiting for new ones for over two years
New ones are leaked to be much more expensive.
It only makes sense to wait if you were planning on spending $2000 on a new card. The cheaper 5070 won’t be out in January.
They’ve stopped production on the 4000 series and prices on those are only going up. The high end of the 5000 series is supposed to launch in January.
I briefly considered grabbing an RTX 4080 Super. It’d still be a big upgrade over my RTX 3080 LHR, but with January looming I decided to wait. Hopefully there’ll be a week or two between retail availability and crushing new tarrifs. 😆
Amd is supposed to be bringing out a $500 card that is more powerful than their current 7900xt. That will be a great card.
I’d not heard that. I thought AMD was sort of sitting this generation out. Huge if true.
Woah. That’s a lot of printer cartridges. I hope you get the colours you need!
